Sharp County record., 1887-09-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the Wisconsin Central Railroad, threaten 10
strike against H. S. Barnes, the superin-
tendent of machinery in the shops aU
Waukesha. Mr.. Barnes has offended TINS
engineers in some manner.
WIN. O'BRIEN, editor of United Iretd@a,
nresided over the fortnightly meeting OF
the Irish National League in Dublin on
tbe Both. The meeting was unusually
large. A number of Catholic clergymen
were present. n.
HENRY GEORGE, A. J. Steers, Rev. Mr.
Mccarthy and Frank Ferril, the negro
Knight of Labor, began the United LABOR
camnaign in New York City on the night
of the Both by speaking from a truck at
One Hundred and Fifth Street and Third
avenue. There was a large crowd pres
! ent.
Hon. C. C.. MAMsuNGER, OF Charleston,
s. c., ex-Confederate Secretary OF the
Treasury, and one of President Davis
most trusted friends and confidential ad-
visers, is seriously ill at his summer resi-
dence at Flat Rock, S. G. He is not ex-
pected to recover.
THE President has issued proclama-
tion allowing the free entry of the arms,
munitions and baggage of such foreign
military organizations as may desire 70
participate in the National military en-
campment and drill to be held in Chicago
in October next.
PRANzINI, the murderer, was guillotined
at Paris on the 31st.
The conference of the Society of Char
tiles and Corrections adjourned at Omaha
on the 31st to meet next year in Buffalo,
NY.
PROPOSALS were opened at Washington
on the 31st for the sale of S3, 40, 400 United
States four and half per cent. bonds to
the Government.
In a parliamentary election at Hatfield,
England, on the 31st, the Gladstonians
showed a great increase of voting
strength.
THE Pennsylvania State Democratic con-
vention was held at Allenstown, on the
31st. The Randall and anti-Randall ele-
ments coalesced and a harmonious plat
form was adopted.
! HALIFAX, IN. 81 marine circles are ex-
ercised over the case of the German bark
Highfyer. 1t is claimed the vessel was
fired to secure heavy insurance.
THE Iowa Greenback convention at Des
Moines was a fasco. 1t nominated nc
ticket, indorsed the Union Labor people
and recommended "non-partisan" noml-
nations.
THE Secretary of the Navy has ordered
a trial trip of the new cruiser Boston, now
at New York. The trial will be six hours
under full steam in Long Island Sound.
MARK GARRETT is reported to have been
murdered and robbed at McAllister, l. l..
on the 31st.
THE United States Express Company
has secured by purchase a thirty years
control of the franchises Of the Baltimore
& Ohio Express.
IT is semi-officially announced that
Supreme Court of Illinois will, on the 9th
inst, render a decision affirming the re-
suit of the Chicago Anarchists trial.
A RIPPLE of excitement has been caused
at Washington by the report of an assault
by Judge Zubia upon United States Consul
General Brigham.
JAMES H. MEACHAM, a prominent MAP
publisher of Detroit, Mich, was accident
ally shot on the Both while hunting near
York, Neb., and died soon after.
MICHAEL BUTLER, a discharged keeper
of the Insane asylum on Wards Island
N. Y, states that out of 1,75O inmates OF
the asylum 300 of them are perfectly sane
and 1000 harmless.
MRS. SIEDs, who was to have been hanged
at Tahlequah. l. T., on the I'd, for the muir
der of her grandchild, to hide her daugh-
ter's shame, has been respited until No
vember /.
MAJOR J. E. D. CoUzINs, United States
Marshal for the Eastern district of Mis-
souri,, died at his home in st. Louis early
on the morning of the 1st, aged seventy
four years.
JUDGE SAWYER of the United States
Court at San Francisco gave dinner on
the Goth to Senator Stanford, Justice
Field, of the Federal Supreme Court, Judge
Hoffman and several prominent railroad
officials.
THE work of evicting the tenants in ar
rears on the O'Grady estates, in Ireland,
was concluded on the 31st without fur
ther rioting. A bed-ridden woman, who
refused to be installed as care-taker, was
removed with her bed outdoors.
REV. DR.. SEYMOUR, alias Coverdale, the
man who ran away from Janesyille, Mimi,
with Editor Henry's wife was arraigned
in jefferson Market police court, New
York, on the 31st and was discharged, the
Governor of Minnesota having refused to
issue a requisition for him.
| 6. w. WILKINS, an extensive lumber
dealer and boat builder, Of Kittaning, Pa,
who recently made an assignment, has
fed to Canada. He writes that he is now
in Toronto and will not return unless a
proposition for the compromise which he
has made to his creditors is accepted.
THE livery barn of J. H. Coles, in De-
troit, Mich, was burned on the morning
Of the 31st, with its contents. George S.
Hall, farmer near Mount Clemens, sixty
five years old, perished in the flames and
his son Henry Hall, about twenty years
old, and farmer named John Pearsel,
barely escaped.
PROF. CHEYRULE, the noted French
chemist was one hundred and three years
old on the 31st. He is in perfect health.
He attended meeting of the agricultural
society and made a pleasant speech,
thanking his colleagues for bouquet they
had presented him.
BISHOP WIN. L. HARRIS, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, was reported dying at
New York on the 1st.
ENGLAND and Belgium have reached
serious point in their fishery dispute.
MORE "White Cap" outrages are report
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